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Hi, I looked into one of the demos for 360 video playback. I was wondering if there is any demo for networked streaming of videos, that can use MPEG-DASH?
If your players work on top of Android's MediaPlayer, it doesn't support DASH yet. Google has an open source project called ExoPlayer (http://google.github.io/ExoPlayer/) that supports DASH.
Interesting. I'm not familiar with the ExoPlayer api, but I would hope it at least has some similar apis to MediaPlayer. If you look into the source of GVRVideoSceneObject.java, you'll see the key thing needed is to give the MediaPlayer a SurfaceTexture to use. The GVRVideoSceneObject creates the SurfaceTexture and then hands it to the MediaPlayer. Assuming the same capability exists with ExoPlayer, you should be able to modify GVRVideoSceneObject to use ExoPlayer.
Is this the thing you wanted me to look into?
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Interesting. I'm not familiar with the ExoPlayer api, but I would hope it at least has some similar apis to MediaPlayer. If you look into the source of GVRVideoSceneObject.java, you'll see the key thing needed is to give the MediaPlayer a SurfaceTexture to use. The GVRVideoSceneObject creates the SurfaceTexture and then hands it to the MediaPlayer. Assuming the same capability exists with ExoPlayer, you should be able to modify GVRVideoSceneObject to use ExoPlayer.
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No, this is a new issue that popped up a few minutes ago.
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Is this the thing you wanted me to look into?
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Interesting. I'm not familiar with the ExoPlayer api, but I would hope it at least has some similar apis to MediaPlayer. If you look into the source of GVRVideoSceneObject.java, you'll see the key thing needed is to give the MediaPlayer a SurfaceTexture to use. The GVRVideoSceneObject creates the SurfaceTexture and then hands it to the MediaPlayer. Assuming the same capability exists with ExoPlayer, you should be able to modify GVRVideoSceneObject to use ExoPlayer.
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Looks like ExoPlayer accepts a Surface. You pass a SurfaceTexture to the Surface constructor. So it seems feasible that a tweaked GVRVideoSceneObject would work with ExoPlayer.
@arianaa30 Does this help?
That would be awesome! Is it possible put a sample using exoplayer? More importantly my most important need right now is to play multiple videos on a 360 view. Maybe you tie this to my open case #609 and do tests if we can play say 4 videos in 360 video, all glued together?
Hi @arianaa30 ! Is it finally possible to use ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer? If so, do you have any example?
Thanks a lot
They suggested it is possible. I never tested it though.
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Hi @arianaa30 https://github.com/arianaa30 ! Is it finally possible to use ExoPlayer instead of MediaPlayer? If so, do you have any example?
Thanks a lot
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Please share the example if you made it work!
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Don´t worry! Thanks for your quick answer.
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We have something in the works. The pull requests are pending review so they are subject to changes.
Small changes to the framework to let the videoSceneObject use ExoPlayer https://github.com/Samsung/GearVRf/pull/845
Updated sample that can use either MediaPlayer or the ExoPlayer. Set the USE_EXO_PLAYER flag to have the sample use ExoPlayer. https://github.com/gearvrf/GearVRf-Demos/pull/318
Thanks a lot @liaxim , I have a question... How can I play a DASH content? Do you have any example?
Hi, playing DASH would be an ExoPlayer question. You should look around at their web site - I am sure they have examples. If you have problems integrating that with GVRF we can provide further assistance.
Hi, that was my problem. I can play DASH content using ExoPlayer, but I don't know how to integrate it with GVRF. In the ExoPlayer example you can specify that you are using DASH content, but I can't find how to specify it through GVRF so any assistance will be welcomed. Thanks!
The change in the framework has been merged. Please look at the gvr-360video sample, specifically the Minimal360VideoActivity class. There is a flag to enable use of the ExoPlayer (USE_EXO_PLAYER). The essence of the integration is in the makeExoPlayer method.
It seems like the manifest is never loaded. Doing the same with the ExoPlayer´s demo it works, so it can be a GVRF or an integration problem, I´m not sure. Any idea? Has anyone tried to use other renderers (DASH, HLS or SmoothStreaming)?
Can you share any logcat output? To my knowledge nobody has tried other renderers. I will try DASH but I can't give a time frame when.